Abstract:
Recent LTE communications schemes utilize such large amounts of data traffic, that there is little available bandwidth for performing sniffing of nearby base stations and/or cells, which is often integral in performing carious calibrations. Utilizing an LTE scheduler, small data traffic gaps can be detected in one or both of the receive chain and transmit chain. During these data traffic gaps, portions of sniffing data can be acquired and stored without significant interruption to the communication chains, where the overall process may be referred to as “blinking.” Over time, these portions can be accumulated in memory until a sufficient. Over time, these portions can be accumulated in memory until a sufficient amount of sniffing data has been acquired. Once sufficient data has been acquired, sniffing analysis can be performed in the background on the combined data.
Abstract:
Cellular processors are cascaded to provide different configurations, which result in higher-capacity base stations, increased numbers of simultaneous users over one frequency band, and/or aggregation of several carriers while still using only one radiofrequency (RF) chipset. The processors are aligned in both time and frequency, with each processor having a data port that allows data exchange with the other processors. The data alignment and exchange allow the processors, in the aggregate, to act as a single unit, resulting in a scalable architecture that can accommodate different system configurations.
Abstract:
Femtocells in a self-organizing network (SON) sniff their wireless fidelity (WiFi) environments to identify WiFi footprints of the femtocells. The WiFi footprints of each femtocell are sent to a femtocell gateway. The femtocell gateway receives WiFi footprint data from a plurality of femtocells and determines if there is a common WiFi footprint between the femtocells. The femtocells with exclusive WiFi footprints are allocated the same network parameters. The femtocells with common WiFi footprint are allocated different network parameters.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for staged connectivity and sleep mode are provided. Embodiments of the present disclosure optimize power consumption for a user across user devices by creating an ad hoc co-located network of user devices and establishing a device in the co-located network to act as a master (hub) device. In an embodiment, the system includes multiple user wireless devices and a network controller. The network controller identifies a set of proximate wireless devices and the power capability for each wireless device in the set. The network controller then selects a wireless device in the set to act as the hub (master) wireless device based on factors such as the power capabilities of each wireless device. The network controller then instructs the other wireless devices in the set to power down and instructs the appropriate network providers to handover communications to the hub (master) device.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is disclosed to restrict access services to a communication device. The services may be restricted based upon hardware characteristics, geographic characteristics, user specifications of the communication device and/or specified rules. The method and apparatus may restrict its service to only specific applications suitable for the environment and the time. Upon a request for a service that is now restricted, the method and apparatus may notify an end user that the service was requested. Further, the method and apparatus may notify an originator of the request that the service is not available and may ask for a short message to be delivered to the end user.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for performing timing synchronization via network listening. The system and method can be implemented in a non-synchronized base station to receive Cell-Specific Reference Signals (CRSs) of a synchronized base station during guard periods of special subframes. To allow the non-synchronized base station to receive the CRSs, the non-synchronized base station can configure one or more of its special subframes to have a shorter downlink part than corresponding special subframes of the synchronized base station. The system and method of the present disclosure can use the received CRSs to synchronize the timing of the non-synchronized base station to the timing of the synchronized base station. To prevent a substantial loss in downlink throughput due to the non-synchronized base station using a shorter DwPTS part, tracking can be performed on a once per multiple radio frame basis.
Abstract:
A communication system is disclosed that includes a communication transmitter that converts various information signals that collectively occupy a large signal bandwidth into various signals that individually occupy small signal bandwidths for transmission to a communication receiver. The communication receiver converts these various signals that individually occupy the small signal bandwidth to recovered information signals that collectively occupy the large signal bandwidth for processing.
Abstract:
Chip instrumentation determines, in-situ, an allowable increase over product specification in the operating frequency of at least one clock domain in an integrated circuit for a given set of environmental, power supply and/or functionality constraints. Information on the allowable increase in operating frequency for the at least one clock domain is provided to circuits and/or software to effect change in operating frequency.
Abstract:
Chip instrumentation determines, in-situ, an allowable increase over product specification in the operating frequency of at least one clock domain in an integrated circuit for a given set of environmental, power supply and/or functionality constraints. Information on the allowable increase in operating frequency for the at least one clock domain is provided to circuits and/or software to effect change in operating frequency.